The sad part is we had 2 long TD drives all night, one being 50 yards and the other 68. That's IT. Those 48 points were basically gifted by the defense and ST. Unreal!
Don’t mind this guy.
Of the last 4 games, this is tied for the least frustrating with Ohio State. Not a great game but you got to understand game flow as an OC. And our D was killing them. This was a "do no harm" game...and the players needed to execute better
Well, turnovers and field position had a lot to do with that. What was ND’s longest drive? 60 yards? I’m thinking the Sam to Tyree TD pass (which was a great call, it cleared the safeties from the middle of the field on Tyree’a post route).
We should be airing it out like this regularly. The WRs have plenty of one-on-one opportunities. Hopefully we'll see more of that with Greathouse and Thomas healthy
Is this true? Holy hell that's awful against a USC defense. Truly awful.
Particularly the target over the top to Evans. That pass should have gone underneath the coverage to Staes. Rather than an incompletion, it would have been a 15-20 yard pickup minimum. Bad decision on Sam's part, but still glad he's on OUR side!
It’s sad when we have to say “wasn’t that bad” when the defense he went up against is awful and his offense only put up 250 yards. If people can claim the team loses confidence in MF, thus plays bad, we can say the offense has no faith in him and plays bad.
This comparison is so disingenuous though. USC lead the entire game against Colorado. Colorado ran 90 plays that game and played as fast as they could.
Nothing about either of those examples makes you right either. Notredame23 is correct. You are not.
Having a lower YPP on offense than Stanford did against USC is very, very bad.
I'm glad Freeman didn't have this opinion on Pyne/Buchner. I hope he makes the right decision on Parker too. He's just incompetent- it's that simple. Most of us were correctly disappointed at the time when he was hired
And the times they had to put together drives, they couldn’t muster anything. It’s still a problem. It’s okay to point that out. It’s also okay to defend him.
Total plays were on nd… came out after half, 6 plays 7 yards… not all on Parker of course but it’s his offense
I agree he's not getting an in-season demotion, but most of us will be very disappointed if he's the OC again next year. I appreciate your loyalty and patience, but I think Freeman should look for an upgrade in the offseason
Yes. At minimum he needs someone spelling out tendencies and %s. Hell the board has almost done that for him but it's not registering.
